I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
The damaged loves the damaged.
We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.
Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.